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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Over the coming decades, land policy and
    administration, for urban as well as rural areas, will be
    critical for Ethiopia's development. The vast majority
    of people making up the Federal Democratic Republic of
    Ethiopia's (FDRE) predominantly agricultural economy
    live in rural areas. Finally, land policies and
    administration can contribute significantly to the
    objectives of promoting gender equality and protecting

  2. Library Resource
    April, 2012
    Albania

    Albania's radical farmland
    distribution is credited with averting an economic crisis
    and social unrest during the transition. But many believe it
    led to a holding structure too fragmented to be efficient,
    and that public efforts to consolidate plots are needed to
    lay the foundation for greater rural productivity. This
    paper uses farm-level data from the 2005 Albania Living
    Standards Measurement Survey to explore this quantitatively.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2012
    Vietnam

    The policy reforms called for in the
    transition from a socialist command economy to a developing
    market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a
    country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial
    focus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, which
    is where one finds the bulk of the population and almost all
    the poor. Economic development will typically entail moving
    many rural households out of farming into more remunerative

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Land is the integrating component of all
    livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water
    (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying
    political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of
    natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global
    population and economy has resulted in the unintended
    mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. This
    book provides strategic focus to the implementation of

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    This book examines issues at the
    forefront of the debate on land law reform, pays particular
    attention to how reform options affect the poor and
    disadvantaged, and recommends strategies for alleviating
    poverty more effectively through land law reform. It reviews
    the role of the World Bank in land law reform, examining
    issues of process as well as substance. It also identifies
    key challenges and directions, and stresses the need to

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Liberia

    To implement the vision of fostering
    economic development, social equity, and a transparent and
    effective government, the Government of Liberia has outlined
    key transitions that need to be accomplished. These include
    the development of infrastructure (roads, electricity),
    schools, job creation and transition from war, civil
    conflict and social polarization to a well functioning
    society in which economic opportunities are fostered and

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Municipal land sales provide one option for financing urban infrastructure investment. In countries where land is owned by the public sector, land is by far the most valuable asset on the municipal balance sheet. Selling land or long-term leasing rights to land use while investing the proceeds in infrastructure facilities can be viewed as a type of portfolio asset adjustment. This paper shows that in China many municipalities have financed more than half of their high rates of infrastructure investment from land sales, for periods of 10 to 15 years.

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    This note recounts that by the early
    2000s, the Government of Mexico and the Secretariat of
    Agrarian Reform, in particular, had come to see investment
    in "the more dynamic young segment of the population
    endowed with more human capital" as the key to
    revitalizing the moribund rural economy of the
    country's social sector. Approaching this objective
    programmatically would entail establishing a land fund from

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    Ensuring food security under changing
    climate conditions is one of the major challenges of our
    era. Agriculture must not only become increasingly
    productive, but must also adapt to climate change while
    reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Soil carbon
    sequestration, the process by which atmospheric carbon
    dioxide is taken up by plants through photosynthesis and
    stored as carbon in biomass and soils, can support these

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Timor-Leste

    This report examines land access,
    disputes, and dispute resolution in Timor-Leste, using
    findings from the justice module included in an extension of
    the 2007 Timor-Leste Survey of Living Standards (TLSLS2) and
    a review of relevant social-science literature. The
    extension survey (TLSLSx) revisited a nationally
    representative subsample of the TLSLS2 between April and
    October 2008. The respondent for the justice module was

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